No disrespect meant but, really? Didn’t this lady have better things to do? She fell one day and died a week later. She had served in Congress for more than 3 decades and in local politics before that. That’s too long. At eighty-eight she should have been enjoying her golden years, spending time with family and grand-kids or enjoying hobbies, not serving in Congress!

The Special Election to replace Representative Trent Franks who resigned after it came to be known he pressured a staff member to be a surrogate for he and his wife who apparently could not have children cost Arizona taxpayers $3.5 million. One California Assemblyman’s decision to vacate his seat early cost Fresno County taxpayers a half-million dollars – enough to pay for four sheriff deputies! Special elections are held all the time, but taxpayers having to foot the bill for a Representative or Senator who dies in office after being there way too long is just another good reason for term limits.

This is another promise candidate Trump made that I hope he keeps! There are many ways to drain the swamp. Term limits is one of them. But don’t fool yourselves Congress will never vote for term limits. It will have to be done through an Article V Convention of States.

Aloha, Mikie ~just a blogger (fightin’ like a girl)

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Washington is dysfunctional & broken, period, dot, point. And they will never reform themselves. This has become glaringly clear to Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) so he’s outta there. Who can blame him?

Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee said,

“The reality is, sadly, I don’t see much difference between the Trump administration and the Obama administration. In many ways, it’s almost worse, because we’re getting nothing, and that’s terribly frustrating and with all due respect, the Attorney General has not changed at all. I find him to be worse than what I saw with Loretta Lynch in terms of releasing documents and making things available.”

Congressman Trey Goudy will replace Chaffetz as head of the Oversight Committee, but I don’t see him as any more dynamic that any of the rest of the Republicans in getting the job of reform done in Congress.

The only answer in reforming Washington D.C. and bringing power back to “We the People” is through an Article 5 (part ‘B’ of Article V of the US Constitution) Convention of States (COS).

Every republic in the past has failed for the same reason; fiscal issues and an over-powerful central government. The Founders knew that this was likely to happen. That’s why they gave us in the Constitution a way to fix this. A way to limit the scope and jurisdiction of the Federal Government.

Go to the Convention of States website to learn more. Sign up for their email news alerts and volunteer! Twelve states have passed the COS Resolution. Thirty-four are needed to trigger the Convention. The Convention is focused & limited to:

The fact that the libtards are trying their damnedest to bless the country and jurisprudence for years to come (not!) with a third Obama Supreme Court appointment, and conservatives are trying their best to prevent it should tell us just how far off track we really are.

Scalia believed that the Constitution was “dead, dead, dead”. He was a strict constitutionalist (hat-tip The Blaze), and argued that the Constitution was not a living document and must be read exactly as the Founding Fathers wrote it. He was an originalist. Justice Scalia also stated that his legal decisions do not always align with his political views.

“The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge.”

In other words judges should remain committed to the meaning of the law and setting aside politics must be done for correct legal interpretation. Democratic presidents always select Supreme Court nominees based on who will uphold their political beliefs and ideology and the right does pretty much the same although the right’s ideology used to be anyway, more centered on the rule of law and what the Constitution had intended at the time it was written.

“Unless you give [the laws] the meaning of those who enacted them, you’re destroying democracy.”

So how do we know the original intent of the words in the Constitution? We look to the original sources of the day.

The records and writings of the debates at the Constitutional Convention

The records and writings of the debates in the various state ratifying conventions

The Federalist Papers written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay under the pen name, Publius). The Federalist Papers explained the Constitution to the people who were to ratify it.

Dictionaries of the time

Private correspondence between key leaders during the time the Constitution was written.

A catalogue of many of the original documents for each section of the Constitution can be found at The Founder’s Constitution. It’s very interesting if you’re into that sort of thing.

The claim that President Obama’s judicial nominees are being held up, or that they have been opposed for racial reasons (if I had a nickel for every time they played the race card!), simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. From National Review. The U.S. Senate has confirmed 321 individuals nominated to the federal bench during Obama’s presidency: 264 district court judges, 55 appeals-court judges, and two Supreme Court justices. That represents more than one-third of the entire federal judiciary.

As far as the Senate’s obligation, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution does not obligate the Senate to give the president its “Advice and Consent.” It says the president has the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. It is up to the President and supporters to convince the Senate to consent to his nominees.

By the way, one of the items for likely discussion during an Article V Convention of States would be term limits for Congress and all federal officers of the court. I say no more life-time appointments to anything!

Aloha, Mikie ~just a blogger (fightin’ like a girl)

~Psst, tired of politics? Check out Travelin the Categories drop down menu (right side panel) for my blogs posted from interesting locations during my travel adventures.

Every republics in the past has failed for the same reason. The Founders knew that this was likely to happen. That’s what The Federalist Papers was all about. That’s why they gave us in the Constitution a way to fix this. A way to limit the scope and jurisdiction of the Federal Government.

Why this blog?

I can't stand it anymore! What is becoming of our country, our basic liberties?

After two careers (18 yrs as a dental hygienist, then 20 as a Realtor) I have to stand up and try to effect some change. I want to make it easier for you to do the same. We have to Get Off Our Butts and spread the word. There are more of us than they think, but we have to make ourselves known before it's too late.